fractio

== Latin == === Etymology === From frangō (“to break”) +‎ -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfraːk.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfrak.t͡si.o] === Noun === frāctiō f (genitive frāctiōnis); third declension the action of breaking (mathematics) fraction 1544, Orontius Finaeus, Arithmetica Practica, liber II, cap. 7 [1] ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “fractio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "fractio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “fractio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.